Multiscale electrothermal modeling of nanostructured devices

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1285-1292

  Romano, Giuseppe ^a   Carlo, Aldo Di ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Device; hotspot; multiscale; nanostructure; thermal

Indexed keywords

ALGAN; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DEVICE; DOMAIN PARTITIONING; DRIFT-DIFFUSION SIMULATION; ELECTRO-THERMAL MODEL; ELECTRO-THERMAL MODELING; HOT SPOT; LOCAL HEATING; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MESOSCOPIC EFFECTS; MULTISCALE; MULTISCALES; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOCOLUMN; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PBTE; THERMAL; THERMAL BOUNDARY RESISTANCE; THERMAL MODEL; TRANSPORT OF CHARGE;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM NITRIDE; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 81255175616     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2129574     Document Type: Article

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